Stitch-ripping tool.



PATENTED JULY 3, 1906.

P. B. REED.

STITCH RIPPING TOOL.

APPLIUATIONTILED APR. 29, 1904.

,rns NORRIS PETERS cal, wasmna-mrv, n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1906.

Application filed April 29, 1904. Seth-1N0. 205.501.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL B. REED, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Stitch-Bi ping Tools, of whic the following is a spec' cation.

My invention has for its object to facilitate the ripping of stitching; and it consists in a tool such as is hereinafter particularly set forth with the reference to the accompanying drawing and subsequently claimed.

The drawin represents a perspective view of a preferred form of tool in accordance With my invention.

Referring by letter to the drawing, A indicates a stiff metal plate having one end thereof bent down at a right angle to the remainder. This bent-down end of the plate issuitably tempered and round to a sharp edge and constitutes the depending blade I) of the tool. The tempering of the blade end of the tool makes it harder than the remainder of said tool and enables it to hold the edge to which it is ground. Back of the blade the plate is provided with integral arms that are bent to form upper op osite transverse bows c, that overhang said p ate, the contour of the bows being such that the tool as a Whole may be held on a finger, preferably the thumb, of either hand of the operator. The bows are sufiiciently ductile to permit of their being bent to obtain the proper fit of the tool on the finger aforesaid. There are preferably two bows rising from each longitudinal edge of the plate at a suitable distance apart, the weight of the tool being as light as possible consistent with the necessary strength, and the disposition of said bows is such that said tool is not liable to slip off the finger on which it is Worn.

In practice sewed material is held in both hands of the operator in such a manner that the tool then Worn on a finger of one of the hands may be actuated to force its blade against stitches and cut the same, said material being pulled to make said stitches taut in r the path of said tool.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A stitch-ripping tool consistin of a metal plate having the forward end thereof bent down at a right angle to the remainder, tempered harder than the same and ground to a sharp edge; and ductile arms integral with the horizontal portion of the plate over which they are bent to form adjustable finger-confining bows opposite one another in pairs at a suitable interval apart.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PAUL B. REED.

Witnesses:

JAMES DAVIES, BENNETT W. SPENCER. 

